Boyle's Zombies

Rating: 7/10 (31 July 2012)

Danny Boyle won the Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. Six years earlier, he made this radically different film, showing a wide ranging talent.
A PETA style group raid a science lab to free the monkeys being used for a research project. The man in charge warns them that the chimps are infected with a virus named rage; oh my, do they listen; of course not. Naturally a woman is bitten by one of the primates, l and she, in turn, chomps her fellow activists, which spreads the bug immediately.
Twenty eight days later, the virus has reached outside of the lab and into London, which becomes a vast wasteland. Paris and New York also report of outbreaks. Unlike other zombie flicks, the bitten turn rabid in twenty seconds and must be killed quickly.
The survivors must travel to find food and water and hear of sex slaves being recruited to repopulate the country. There are alternate endings to the movie, and I was satisfied with the one that I saw. A better than average adventure of the undead.